From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Gery Kahn <geryk@ti.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] wl12xx Export chip id to sysfs
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:56:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o2nx16b.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310647673-10144-2-git-send-email-geryk@ti.com> (Gery Kahn's message of "Thu\, 14 Jul 2011 15\:47\:53 +0300")
Gery Kahn <geryk@ti.com> writes:
> Export the chip id to userspace. This helps to change application behavior
> according to architecture of the wl12xx chip.
We already support exporting this type of information through
ethtool's ioctl interface using the wiphy.hw_version, which was
specifially added for this purpose. That's much better than yet
another sysfs file.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-15 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-14 12:47 [PATCH 1/2] wl12xx: Fix for PG version and sysfs files Gery Kahn
2011-07-14 12:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] wl12xx Export chip id to sysfs Gery Kahn
2011-07-15 10:56 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2011-07-17 8:16 ` Kahn, Gery
2011-07-17 12:51 ` Kahn, Gery
2011-07-17 21:45 ` Kalle Valo
2011-07-18 7:18 ` Kalle Valo
2011-07-18 7:21 ` Kalle Valo
2011-07-18 8:39 ` Kahn, Gery
2011-07-18 8:47 ` Kahn, Gery
2011-07-18 9:36 ` Kalle Valo
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